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Turn off the annoying console beep (pc speaker)

Category: Linux | Tags: console beep bell

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HowFlow — On popular request: three ways to turn off the console beep.

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aroedl 5 months ago

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written by thomasg 5 months

Since I'm using gentoo (some years now), I never heard my PC speaker. Maybe I just never built it into the kernel, who knows? :) Well, I don't miss it. Thanks anyway. :)

written by thomasg 5 months

Since I'm using gentoo (some years now), I never heard my PC speaker. Maybe I just never built it into the kernel, who knows? :) Well, I don't miss it. Thanks anyway. :)

written by acm 5 months

Commonly you won't build the pc speaker module under gentoo. On distributions where you're using precompiled kernels, a simple way turning off the annoying beep is to unload the kernel module with:

modprobe -r pcspkr

To avoid udev from loading the module on boot you could blacklist the module in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. But be aware, sometimes the beep is usefull e.g. if you don't have any monitor connected and want to be sure your entered command was successfull.

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